fondue tea, lads

I saw Ballad of Wallis Island six months after everyone else. I liked it. A person could tire of the 'much more dull but much more reliable new husband' trope and that character could have been written out entirely, but apart from that, big thumbs up.

This great little anecdote is right out of a Grace Paley short story.

Hang on, are half of you answering the phone and remaining silent?! I didn't even realise this was an option.

Curious to know what everyone else is doing about this. I am surrounded by parents who still pay for everything (our kids are on gap years etc) and I'm the only one thinking 'hang on, maybe this is not good parenting.'

Up with this sort of thing.

I've never blocked anyone because I'm not six. *everyone blocks me for being a sanctimonious twat* No, wait, not you, it's fine when you do it, please, I can change

‘I wonder what the etymology of scuba is’ thought the master procrastinator as she searched for new and random ways to avoid doing any paid work. 
 Whaaaaaat

Feel like London Centric is carrying a wildly disproportionate load of the good journalism these days. Soon it will just be them and Private Eye and everything else will be who wore who at the BAFTAs.

stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did

Too late to start watching a film so I've just been watching this on loop instead

One day you're young and the next you're holding people up in the pharmacy because you don't understand which ones to take when and is this one with food or

February: How it started. How it's going.

imagine watching Soylent Green and having a eureka moment

Reminder that my friend’s Tory Dad said Labour only have one real policy: ‘free pies for the scruffy’

Any of you have an eye for interior design? I might be entering my bold colours era but my flat is ancient and wonky and small, with thick ceiling beams throughout, and has no flat surfaces or right angles. Would this look mad? Am I doomed to magnolia for life?

Sinners. Blimey.

If you were wondering how windy it is in Barcelona today, there are sofas stuck in trees

I don't even know who James van der Beek is, but do Americans know how completely nutso it seems to Europeans that someone in a wealthy country has to auction their belongings to pay for cancer treatment?

I have watched the episodes that were on the iplayer and which you were probably saving for next week Forgive me they were delicious so short and I wanted to be discourse-ready

Remember those RSS apps, and all the cute stuff there was out there before the monetisation of whimsy did away with them all. (Obvs I say this as a person who has contributed exactly nothing, free or otherwise.)

pleasebegood pleasebegood pleasebegood

When did we start doing 'Save the Date' for everything? It's so bloody stressful. What if I'm busy/sick/CBA that month?

A thing I hate now is when you see something perfect your first thought is no longer 'look at this perfect thing,' it's 'look at this perfect thing, I wonder if it's AI'

A good way to monitor how much of their working day people are spending on here is the timestamp of their Ian McKellen RT.

It's not the most pressing issue facing the Labour Party right now but how is the man on the left three years older than the man on the right

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Well that was a taxing day of work, back pain and billionaires getting away with it, I'll just relax with the finale of my favourite Le Carré–adjacent tropical spy romp … WTF

Cake. People give you cake like cake is an event, but with vanishingly rare exceptions, cake is nothing but a chore. Sorry.

Just a selection of the 72 medina cats we are taking home with us.

Oh, Catherine O'H. She seemed properly good fun.

Just been contacted by a solicitor who says that a friend who died three years ago left me something in his will and am utterly verklempt. Write wills, everyone. Show people you love them.

Nous sommes arrivées à Fès. Haven't slept yet but those ceramics are not going to buy themselves.

bought what Decathlon terms 'festival wellies' so I could walk around the city in this endless rain without looking like a lost farmer but have ended up looking like Temu Spiderman

Just got AI to do my annual VAT return for me. I'm going down, aren't I?

Not sure my schadenfreudig lust rages hot enough to follow this account full-time, but it's reassuring to dip into from time to time.

gently tapping the sign

So much this. My timeline is 100% people who are clever, creative, funny and incredibly good-looking. You cannot curate your Twitter timeline in this way.

Listening to an old In Our Time about Cervantes and Melvyn Bragg is insisting that in the UK we pronounce it 'Don Kwiksət'. Do we?! I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that.

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

I just want a teapot that doesn't drip. A mobile with decent battery life. Pockets.

Good morning from Barcelona where it is raining again as it has done almost every day since about October and I'm delighted for the reservoirs but also ffs.

This is how I imagine @wildobliquities.bsky.social IRL

wondering if Canada would have me

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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Got an hour to kill in the one open café in town so am fully up speed on the Julio Iglesias SCANDAL, if anyone has any questions

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The charity vid has always been my favourite thing on the internet, nothing else comes close.

Leaving the tree up until Bowie's birthday is the new Twelfth Night.